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how does this idea of breaking down division compare to god's covenant promises to abraham that all nations would be blessed?

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Ephesians 2:14-16

For he is our peace, who made both one, and broke down the middle wall of partition, having abolished in the flesh the hostility, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man of the two, making peace, and might reconcile them both in one body to God through the cross, having killed the hostility thereby.

Paul is writing to believers in Ephesus, a major city in the Roman province of Asia Minor, likely in the mid-1st century CE. In this part of his letter, he is explaining how Jesus has united Jewish and non-Jewish people into a single community, describing their former separation and their new shared identity.

What divisions in our world today might be healed by finding a common ground or purpose?

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  • Galatians 3:8

    This verse directly states God's promise to Abraham that all nations would be blessed through him.

  • Isaiah 2:2-4

    This prophetic passage envisions a future where all nations stream to God's mountain, learning peace and breaking down instruments of war.

  • Colossians 3:11

    Paul reiterates that in Christ, distinctions like Jew or Gentile, slave or free, no longer define identity.

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